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My educational background is cultural anthropology. This perspective has given me new insight into why men and women do what they do and how to deal with their sometimes Grand-Canyon-sized differences. I'm fascninated by the differences and what it takes to get us together so we can actually enhance each other's lives rather than cause what is too often the expected frustration.

I started teaching self-improvement, self-empowerment workshops in 1991. Most of my workshops and seminars were attended by women but when I could gather together enough brave men I offered men's and mixed groups. I studied with Marti Glenn, a Ph.D. psychotherapist who taught me to delve beneath the surface to find out what makes people do what they do.

In my workshops I taught others how to bring out the best in themselves through their own efforts. That workshop was called Entelechy.

Then I developed Embracing Our Sensual Selves, a women's sexuality workshop. In the afternoons I brought in a panel of men to answer any questions the women might have. I needed special men for this delicate assignment so I interviewed each one. I realized there was much to be learned by simply asking the right questions. Men began to call me requesting to be on my panels.

Then they asked for a workshop for men so they could ask a panel of women the questions they'd always wondered about. Both men's and women's seminars were fabulously successful. From that I published a monthly newsletter called Pathway to Passion.

My curiosity ignited, I continued interviewing men. I knew I was learning things that women needed to know so I developed the Twelve Simple Secrets about men and published my book about the private world of men, Men Made Easy.

To share what I'd learned with more women, I developed Love Reinvented. My goal has been to help people experience romantic relationships that grow and deepen with time.

I continue to write books, publish my weekly newsletter about love, romance and happiness, and teach seminars and workshops around the country.

Because there is such a need, I have been focusing more and more of my attention to helping men and women over 40 to be more successful with dating and finding true and lasting love.

Personal details:

I was married at 19 and divorced 29 years later. For most of those years (not the last two) my marriage was a happy one.

I have a grown daughter and son and an adorable, very smart 12-year-old grandson.

I currently own a fantastic little jewel of a home in Santa Barbara, where I live half time, near my children and mother. I live in Los Angeles half time with my fiance', the love of my life, Dr. Chris Manning. He is a finance professor at Loyola Marymount University.

We have set a date to get married. We love skiing, going to the movies, good food, traveling, being with friends, and my dear family.

We feel blessed to have found each other and we're making the most of each moment we are together.

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